On Book Design

1. Stock.xchng: Contains over 200,000 royalty free photos, plus tutorials to learn how to spiff them up.

2. Flickr: Some people offer their photos for public use. Be sure to check their usage terms first.

3. Buzznet: Like Flickr, some of the photos stored on this site may have restrictions.

4. PD Photo.org: This is a public domain site, although some of the photos have restrictions. It doesn’t have as many photos as the sites above, but the site is easy to navigate and use.

5. Openphoto.net: There’s plenty of photos to browse, but be aware that some are low quality. Also, Creative Commons licenses apply to some of the photos.

6. Ourmedia.org: A good resource for photos, audio and videos. The site is difficult to navigate, and some of the material may have some restrictions.

7. Google Images: You can spend hours surfing through the images. Many of the images indexed weren’t done so with the permission of the author. So be careful.

8. Free Stock Photos: Has clear English regarding the conditions for the usage of their photos. The photo collection is rather small.

9. Image After: Offers a large collection of photos and textures for personal or commercial use.

10. Morgue File: Another site that offers free photos and textures. Very easy to navigate.

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I’m still in the testing phase of the 1ClickCovers ecover software and have to say that I’m very impressed with the results so far. The web-based and PDF tutorials make it very easy for a novice to learn how to create professional ebook covers with this script. It took me a little over an hour to create my ecover, but I blame my rusty skills with Photoshop.

Another concern I had was the compatibility with my Mac. 1ClickCovers works on both Macs and PCs.

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